The new UAFX ANTI from Universal Audio brings the power of a boosted 5150 to your pedalboard
The latest Universal Audio UAFX amp pedal is here – the ANTI. Following on from the Dream, Woodrow, Ruby and Lion’s digital, pedal-sized recreations of Fender, Vox and Marshall amplifiers, the brand has taken on a metal titan – the Peavey 5150.
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The 5150, first designed by Peavey as an Eddie Van Halen signature, has become a mainstay of the metal world. It now lives on as both the EVH 5150 and the Peavey 6505. Its famously focused, tight high-gain sound – often made tighter with a noise gate and a Tube Screamer – is perfect for fast, aggressive playing and heavy chugs. Hence the 5150 or 6505 can be heard on innumerable heavy records, from acts as varied as Trivium, Carcass, Opeth, Slipknot and In Flames.
UAFX’s ANTI applies Universal Audio’s standard amp-modelling approach – it’s in the same style of enclosure as the other UAFX amp pedals, with six knobs, two footswitches and three toggle switches. Despite the standard colours associated with the 5150/6505 being black and silver, UA has opted instead for a red and white colour scheme, presumably as a nod to the amplifier’s Van Halen lineage.
The pedal offers all of the usual control over volume, gain and EQ, with a clean, crunch and lead channel on offer. As with some of the other UAFX amps, there’s an internal boost – which, of course, is a Tube Screamer-style mid-pushed overdrive, an absolute no-brainer of an inclusion that clearly indicates that UA is aiming straight for the metal audience with the ANTI.
And if that target audience wasn’t quite clear enough, guitarists from bands like Nevermore, Arch Enemy, Tetrarch and The Black Dahlia Murder have contributed presets that you can load via the UAFX Control app. This app also lets you save and manage your own presets, as well as edit some of the pedal’s deeper settings such as tube biasing.
The ANTI indicates a notable shift for Universal Audio’s amp pedal offerings – while the previous pedals had their differences, they broadly recreated old-school amplifiers associated with classic rock sounds and/or pristine pedal-platformery. The ANTI is the first of its amps to be unapologetically heavy and high-gain.
The ANTI will set you back $399/£379, similar to the launch pricing of the rest of the UAFX range.
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